when growing outdoors,
1. grow where nobody will ever walk even in your wildest dreams, it HAS to be hard to get to.
2. don't leave tracks, if you do, cover them, dont leave any trace.
3. carry your soil in without your plants and bring tomato and pepper starts with you, youre just growing veggies right? then go back later with your plants in a small backpack with a gps "i'm just geocaching ociffer" (#4)
4. always have a story. a fishing pole, tacklebox, and fishing license make me feel very secure.
5. use plastic "deer fence" and the spray "deer fence" spray it on trunks of trees, watch the wind it friggen stinks! you dont want it on you.
6. for snails, use crushed egg shell, diatamaceous earth on top of the soil, (these cut their bellys and they die), and "sluggo"
7. make your own soil mix blood/bone meal, bat guano, worm casting, chicken shit. fert 2-3 times during flowering (or more if the weather is good, they grow more, they need more) with a one part bloom fert like maxibloom or batonicare pure blend pro bloom.
8. add lots of "soil moist" watering crystals unless youre in a wet area.
9. at harvest stash your bud near the road or at least make sure the coast is clear before you get in your car, or even better dont even use a car, use a bike, then go back and get your stash with your car. double and triple bag it just before you leave. drive when it's cool since heat increases smell.